Obama Is Grooming America To Be The World's Mall Cop

Syria: Much is being made of President Obama's thematic contortions Tuesday evening, arguing both for and against military action. The real news is his full embrace of an untenable new global role for America.

It might as well have been our new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power herself, giving the speech. This president can now join a couple of his predecessors in issuing one of the great wink-wink, nudge-nudge denials in history:

Slick Willie said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

Tricky Dicky said, "I'm not a crook."

Now President Obama says, "America is not the world's policeman."

Actually, we won't be the World's Policeman if we continue letting the genocide-obsessed Power author U.S. foreign policy; we'll be the World's Mall Cop, fecklessly peering at the bloody mischief in Eritrea, Uzbekistan, Equatorial Guinea and numerous other locales the American people haven't heard of.

We'll intervene here, make excuses for not going in there, then in our distraction find Russia and China filling the global power vacuum in places the West's economy vitally depends on, like the oil-rich Middle East.

It was tear-jerker time in the East Room Tuesday evening. Obama painted the picture of "men, women, children lying in rows, killed by poison gas; others foaming at the mouth, gasping for breath; a father clutching his dead children, imploring them to get up and walk."

Recall that candidate Obama, in speaking of choosing Supreme Court justices, said, "I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people's hopes and struggles, as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes."

Apparently, empathy for the hundreds of millions of victims of the world's thug rulers, identifying with their hopes and struggles, is Obama's foreign-policy vision.

The commander in chief conceded that we can't "right every wrong, but when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death," our military should swoop in.

That, he claims, is "what makes us exceptional."

Well, what about children being starved to death? There are millions of them in the world today. What about innocents being murdered by governments — including Syria — using other means?

Where does Uncle Sam dressed up in the Superman costume fly to first? We should intervene, as we have in the past, where our strategic interests dictate — and we'll almost always find atrocities taking place there anyway, witness, e.g., Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Cambodia and, of course, Nazi Germany.

At the root of this is leftist guilt. We have a president who believes U.S. history consists of crimes, like liberating Iraq, enhanced interrogation of terrorists, and the 1953 coup that saved Iran from Soviet domination, for which Obama apologized in his 2009 Cairo speech.

In fact, U.S. global power, by promoting our strategic interests, has over the decades since World War II prevented the genocide and enslavement of billions, by communists and, more recently, by Islamofascists. Samantha Power's utopian naivete is no substitute for it.

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